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This Board Today- my take
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Hi everyone, I have been reading the Board for the last week, even when my PC would not let me sign in, and am curious about some things. I have been here since December, and sometimes on the week ends it gets so quiet, makes sense, people are busier on the week ends.
The Board kind of feels like a meetin...
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Hi folks, sorry I`ve not been here for a while
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Not much to report really, I`ve reached the 100 days without a drink, (without counting, honest..just suddenly realised ) I`ve had a couple of tests, naturally...I suppose in some ways I`ve avoided the forum `cos I don`t want to be reminded of my alcoholism but it`s there, it`s w...
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Please be aware!
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Hi all. just letting you all know that if I post on here in the next 12 days or so, it will probably be total garbage. Just ignore me.
Had to come back home from my holiday because I turned into a shaking mess. (Panic attacks) Saw a doctor in Barmouth (140 miles from where I live) and got some medication. Ca...
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I made it back into this site!!!
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Hi Everyone,
I am so happy I made it back into this site, only took 5 days, ha ha, hope everyone is o.k. and doing well.
I missed you all.
Toni
-- Edited by Toni Baloney at 23:58, 2006-04-26
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Morning
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GOsh I woke up today feeling blue
its work that does this to me, i just need to remind myself that I am not going to have to be there much longer and that i have a new life starting now
I have started the day with a grattitude list, but boy does work leave a sour taste
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Alcohol always lied to me
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Alcohol Always Lied to Me ========================== I Drank for Courage... and woke up night after night horrified. I Drank for Sophistication... and became crude. I Drank to find Peace... and ignited a war within myself. I Drank to be Friendly... and became argumentative and nasty. I Drank to be...
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learning to accept me
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April 26 Self-Acceptance
"The most effective means of achieving self-acceptance is through applying the Twelve Steps of recovery."IP No. 19, "Self-Acceptance"Most of us came to recovery without much self-acceptance. We looked at the havoc we had wreaked in our active addiction, and we loa...
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To Rob
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When I first came in, I went to 3 meets a day, and when i was not in a MEETING and doing anything else i was watching a movie, instead of that bottle pick up a DVD, go to tescos, asda what ever and get your fav pudding, for me fresh choc cookies and a BIGGGG bottle of coke.
YOU CANT GET DONE FOR FAT DRIVIN...
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Change
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I kind of feel sad today. I just came to the realization today that I honestly don't ever want to drink and drug ever again. I guess when I got sober before I always had a lurking notion that someday I might want to go at it again. I've spent about eight years of my life behind bars due to crimes to support my ad...
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Regarding this boards Post/Replies
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Hello everyone,
Wow... where do I start?
First, I want to say that as a long time member of AA with almost 17 years sobriety, and the founder/webmaster of this site, my door (i.e. phone) is available to any member of this message board that feels there is a issue or problem that needs to be addressed o...
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April 26 ~ Happiness is not the Point
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HAPPINESS IS NOT THE POINT I don't think happiness or unhappiness is the point. How do we meet the problems we face? How do we best learn from them and transmit what we have learned to others, if they would receive the knowledge? AS BILL SEES IT, p. 306 In my search "to be happy," I changed jobs, married and...
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Wednesdays shares
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The Language of Letting Go.
Negativity
Some people are carriers of negativity. They are storehouses of pent up anger and volatile emotions. Some remain trapped in the victim role and act in ways that further their victimization. And others are still caught in the cycle of addictive or compul...
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evening all
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I tried to get a substance called Gabba today as it says in 7 days to sobriety that it can help anxiety. any way when i went into the health shop i was advised it is a banned substance in bodybuilding. ,there was another item as well on the list, that promotes serotonin , this is banned too and has been known t...
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observation...
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... when a sober person in AA publicly tells a struggling, tormented, still drinking alcoholic who deperately wants to stop but is finding it very hard to surrender to.. "s**t or get off the pot" does that mean he should go away and stop annoying this sober community until he is himself sober and on the p...
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Things seem to be gettin worse
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Things seem to be gettin worse
My weekend was pretty shit just like last weekend..
I just cant seem to stop drinking......... part of me wants to drink
i woke up this mornign feeling awful and thinking that tonight i was not gona drink (as iv thought SOO many bloody t...
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I almost cut my hand off...
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Every so often I go on a drinking binge for a couple of months. Every time before, I could quit when I really decided it was time. But this time... I started in January and have been drinking heavily most of the time. However, the last month or so, I had been trying to quit, but failing....
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Blame Mom: Bizarre Cause of Alcoholism
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Women who breastfeed their infants for just a month or less could be placing them at a far higher risk of becoming alcoholics as adults. That's the startling word from new research conducted at Copenhagen University in Denmark, which concluded that early weaning is one factor that predisposes adul...
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Calming the Mind--OM
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April 25, 2006 Silencing The Chatter Taming Monkey Mind In Meditation
It's been called the monkey mind - the endless chattering in your head as you jump in your mind from thought to thought while you daydream, analyze your relationships, or worry over the future. Eventually, you start to fe...
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Tuesday night share...
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True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
Author:
Walter Anderson
It doesn't make any diffe...
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sponcer
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someone ask me to be their  sponcer sunday night. been sober but 16 months, still wet behind the ears myself, is this to soon? wagon
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Morning All
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According to a book I am reading at the moment, alot of alcoholics suffer from depression due to a particular amino acid in the brain being depleted, which then gives us little or no serotonin to fire, I am thinking of going to the Dr's today to see if this would be a safe option for me to suppliment with to h...
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morning all
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Hello!
I have had a wonderful weekend
I have taken a real dive into collecting funk soul and blues records which has always been a passion of mine, however alcohol made me forget but I have now re membered
As a coming up to the acedemic year I am both excited and nervous and just need to let go and turn...
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Bye for now
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Hi all, got 1hr and 20 mins to go before a meeting with my local alcohol support team. If it works out ok, I'll be in North Wales in 3 hours and sitting on the beach on Hell Island (Sorry Shell island!)
See ya next week, all the best.
Chris.
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April 25
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ENTERING A NEW DIMENSION In the late stages of our drinking, the will to resist has fled. Yet when we admit complete defeat and when we become entirely ready to try A.A. principles, our obsession leaves us and we enter a new dimension - freedom under God as we understand Him. AS BILL SEES IT, p. 283 I am for...
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today's gift
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We have within us a limitless supply of new beginnings. --Joan Fitzgerald
We can start our day over any time we choose. If we wake up crabby, on the "wrong side of the bed," we are not doomed to a day of gloom. Each minute can be a new reality for us. We can start a new day with just an ounce of will...
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From The Big Book...
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The Promises If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know pea...
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Good morning
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Today starts my first (hands on) day at work. No more orientation, yay!
Yesterday I went and hung out with one of the guys from the meetings. We worked out with some free weights. It was really cool. We went to a meeting later on. It was a big book study which included the promise from into action. I'm rea...
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Finding the Gift-from OM
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April 24, 2006 Finding The Gift Bad Days
We all have days from time to time when it feels like the world is against us or that the chaos we are experiencing will never end. One negative circumstance seems to lead to another. You may wonder, on a bad day, whether anything in your life will ever go ri...
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i need to live like NOW really is all i got
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MONDAY , APRIL 24, 2006
You are reading from the book Touchstones </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=212>.
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. --Albert Camus
We live our program in one-day portions - and our acti...
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i love but i love with CARE
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SUNDAY , APRIL 23, 2006
You are reading from the book The Language of Letting Go </OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=1271>.
Opening Ourselves to Love
Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery.Many of us have blocked ourselves from re...
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Grattitude
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Hi there, I ahve been to a place called the sactury today, I have been accepted for addiction counselling and also a big book study, looking fwd to it.
went into town for the first time in months today , was a bit strange. got some records from a thrift shop. Was a bit shocked when i went to the loo to find bi...
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april 24
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LEARNING TO LOVE OURSELVES
Alcoholism was a lonely business, even though we were surrounded by people who loved us... We were trying to find emotional security either by dominating or by being dependent upon others . . . We still vainly tried to be secure by some unhealthy sort of domination or depe...
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Sponsees
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Wow, what a weekend with a couple of my sponsees. One ended up in the hospital sick with some unknown thing. One ended up homeless with kids. It's so hard sometimes as a sponsor to know when to step in and help out above the regular taking through the steps, etc... and give some practi...
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on the plus side
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I won this on ebay for £11
Most Valuable Album:
Album: Bob Dylan - Freewheelin’ Estimated Value: $25,000
Background: 1963. US. Stereo. This is the first release. Has "Stereo/360º sound" logo and a sticker with that reads "Singing His Sensational Hit 'Blowin' in the wind' ".
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Opening up...
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Opening Ourselves to Love
Allowing ourselves to receive love is one of the greatest challenges we face in recovery.
Many of us have blocked ourselves from receiving love. We may have lived with people who used love to control us. They would be there for us, but at the high price of our freedom. Lo...
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guess what?? some better news
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hey u guys, the salesman who handled the job, that i had "screwed up" told me in a very nice email "rosie what U did was fixed--- we were SECOND lowest bid---so if we dont' get the job, its over PRICE, not what U did".....
i was so relieved that i didn'...
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Do It Anyway...
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People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false freinds, and true enemies
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today, will be forgotten tom...
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Fire works
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Hello its all fun and games here, I had got in and was putting the roast pork on, and my partner got me! trying to control the situation as usual., I was just drainging the juices of the pork and my partner insisted that she take over, i firmly told her no, well that was it, she screamed at me threw down the cle...
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these are getting way to common
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04/23/2006
Two Teens Hurt In Crash West Of Sioux Falls
The South Dakota Highway Patrol says alcohol was a factor in an early morning crash west of Sioux Falls that sent two teenagers to the hospital with serious injuries. A 17-year-old driver lost control of his car on 267th Stree...
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DAY 1
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Well, today is day 1 for me again............
I drank the past two nights and felt like shit and didn't call my sponsor yet but I will today. I am starting over with step 1
Admitted we were powerless over alcohol and our lives had become unmanagable
Yes that is me. Power...
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Afternoon All
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Hey there. how is everyone doing today?
I am doing ok, just won a job lot of 28, 1970's 45 records (soul and funk) for guess how much....£1.70 ebay is cool man! I know i like stuff like the meters curtis mayfield jackson sisters, but i have a background that is in modern music, so this is all new to me!&nbs...
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Avoiding Conflict is an no...no...
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The number one problem in marriages seems to be avoidance of conflict. Whether it is not wanting to discuss who takes out the trash or who takes Susie and Johnny to their soccer games, conflict is not something we look forward to. It just seems easier either to ignore the problems or just accept them,...
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Just sharing a moment from within...
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If you want more love in the world
Create more love in your heart
If you want people to respect you
Respect them
This relationship applies to everything
In all aspects of life.
Life will give you back
Everything you have given to it.
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HOPE is a word, th...
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anyone doing the online meeting tonight?
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2 guesses - what I am cooking for tea tonight
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GO on see if im predictable
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ah its working! phew!!
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Hello how is it going? I have not been able to get on here due to what seemed tech problems!
I have a alcoholic counselling assesment on monday, with a place called the sactury they do B/Book studies also . and best of all its free!!
I am looking fwd to it!
Right boys night in again , me and the pooch, wi...
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i ALMOST got drunk today
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well i am entering the 60th year and its still hell
i made an honest mistake at work, (told the truth to a guy, when the salesmen was not so honest---long story)
but anyway, i am facing job loss.....the beat goes on for me....one thing after anohter &...
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NEED HELP & SUPPORT
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I've fallen so far off the wagon I don't know if I can get back on. I went through treatment in 1989 and stayed sober for 12 years. Then, in 2001, I decided I could handle alcohol again and would have a few drinks now and then. In 2002, my mother passed away, and all HELL broke loose.&nbs...
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Greetings......
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Hi everyone. I thought I was going to be working today in the factory/warehouse, whatever it is, but I ended up on the computer for eight hours absorbing information about procedure and safety. God I feel like my brain has been through the blender.
Just got off the phone with my sponsor and he wants me...
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Two alky's married for three years
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My wife and I have been having problems communicating. We were on the verge of divorce a few days ago. We are both alkies. Just wanting some feedback from people in AA that have been married for a while.
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